page_title: Royston, Hertfordshire
section_title: Royston railway crossing
hierarchical_section_title: Royston, Hertfordshire / Transport / Royston railway crossing
caption_attribution_description: English: The two proposed sites for the new Royston rail crossing. Site 1 connecting the north of Royston to the ‘Coombes Hole’ allotment gardens area (in blue) and Site 2 connecting to Green Street and Morton Street (in green). Overlaid on OpenStreetMap data.
context_page_description: Royston is a town and civil parish in the District of North Hertfordshire and county of Hertfordshire in England.
  It is situated on the Greenwich Meridian, which brushes the town's eastern boundary, and at the northernmost apex of the county on the same latitude as towns such as Milton Keynes and Ipswich. It is about 43 miles north of central London in a rural area.
  Before the boundary changes of the 1890s, the boundary between Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire ran east–west through the centre of town along the middle of Melbourn Street. The town has a population of 15,781 as of 2011.
context_section_description: A new rail crossing for pedestrians and cyclists was opened in 2012. The crossing links the northern part of the town with the leisure centre and the main complex of schools. Two options were proposed, a bridge with an estimated cost of £1.5m and the eventually successful subway option estimated at £3.25m. Two locations were also under consideration; one at the ‘Coombes Hole’ allotment gardens area and a second connecting Green Street and Morton Street. Sustrans elected to build a subway at Coombes Hole allotment gardens.
  In 2007 the scheme became one of 79 Sustrans Connect2 projects to receive Big Lottery funding. The Connect2 project makes reference only to the subway option.
caption: Proposed Royston rail crossing
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